{"id":35775,"date":"2018-07-06T09:46:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35775"},"modified":"2018-07-06T09:46:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T14:46:24","slug":"this-is-what-modern-war-propaganda-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=35775","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks\u00a0Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title eltd-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2018\/07\/05\/this-is-what-modern-war-propaganda-looks-like\/\">This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks\u00a0Like<\/a><\/h3>\n<article id=\"post-4880\" class=\"post-4880 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-article tag-hijab tag-iran tag-propaganda tag-war tag-women\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-content\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image-area\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image size-newsroom_elated_post_feature_image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-05-at-3.39.36-PM-1200x750.png?189db0&amp;189db0\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-05-at-3.39.36-PM-1200x750.png 1200w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-05-at-3.39.36-PM-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-05-at-3.39.36-PM-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-05-at-3.39.36-PM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Screen-Shot-2018-07-05-at-3.39.36-PM.png 1440w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text\">\n<div class=\"eltd-post-text-inner clearfix\">\n<p>I\u2019ve been noticing videos going viral the last few days, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeshmatAlavi\/status\/1013122527361548290\">some<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/2039873829358175\/\">millions of views<\/a>, about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsJulieLenarz\/status\/1014470758922416128\">pro-Israel hawks<\/a>, who aren\u2019t traditionally the sort of crowd you see rallying to support the civil rights of Muslims. What\u2019s up with that?<\/p>\n<p>Well, you may want to sit down for this shocker, but it turns out that they happen to be women from a nation that the US war machine is currently escalating operations against. They are Iranian.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video fb_iframe_widget fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/2039873829358175\/\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" title=\"fb:video Facebook Social Plugin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v2.3\/plugins\/video.php?allowfullscreen=true&amp;app_id=249643311490&amp;channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2Fr%2F1e2RywyANNe.js%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df156881590d5af8%26domain%3Dcaitlinjohnstone.com%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%252Ff3880fc48cbe466%26relation%3Dparent.parent&amp;container_width=721&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FVocativ%2Fvideos%2F2039873829358175%2F&amp;locale=en_US&amp;sdk=joey\" name=\"f1587f48245d51c\" width=\"1000px\" height=\"1000px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Whenever you see the sudden emergence of an attractive media campaign that is sympathetic to the plight of civilians in a resource-rich nation unaligned with the western empire, you are seeing propaganda. When that nation is surrounded by other nations with similar human rights transgressions and yet those transgressions are ignored by that same media campaign, you are most certainly seeing propaganda. When that nation just so happens to already be the target of starvation sanctions and <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/why-you-should-be-intensely-skeptical-of-everything-you-hear-about-iran-protests-497d73e11ee2\">escalated covert CIA ops<\/a>, you can bet the farm that you are seeing propaganda.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3c22\" class=\"graf graf--p graf-after--figure\">Back in December a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration showing how then-Secretary of State, DC neophyte Rex Tillerson, was coached on\u00a0<span class=\"markup--quote markup--p-quote is-other\" data-creator-ids=\"83c4e729ebcc\">how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which to attack and undermine noncompliant governments<\/span>.\u00a0<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">Politico<\/em>\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--p-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/12\/19\/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/12\/19\/tillerson-state-human-rights-304118\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"bf55\" class=\"graf graf--blockquote graf-after--p\"><p>The May 17\u00a0<a class=\"markup--anchor markup--blockquote-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000160-6c37-da3c-a371-ec3f13380001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noopener\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000160-6c37-da3c-a371-ec3f13380001\">memo<\/a>\u00a0reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision:\u00a0<span class=\"markup--quote markup--blockquote-quote is-other\" data-creator-ids=\"83c4e729ebcc\">that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks\u00a0Like I\u2019ve been noticing videos going viral the last few days, some with millions of views, about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and pro-Israel hawks, who aren\u2019t traditionally the sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[17039,7831,655,4121,3142],"class_list":["post-35775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-politico","tag-propaganda","tag-rex-tillerson","tag-us-empire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35776,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35775\/revisions\/35776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}